Studying Babies and Toddlers

Dr Liang Li is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Research interests: family studies, cultural-historical studies, visual methodology, play and pedagogy, babies and toddlers development and education, teacher education, and children’s heritage language development. Contract: liang.li@monash.edu Dr Gloria Quiñones is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Research interests: cultural-historical, post-human perspectives and visual methodologies to understand baby and toddler education, teacher education, play and pedagogy, affect, place and space. Contact:  Gloria.quinones@monash.edu Dr. Avis Ridgway is an adjunct research fellow at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.Research interests: visual methodology; early childhood social, cultural and historical influences on learning; infant-toddler learning and play; teacher education. Contact: avis.ridgway@monash.edu The co-authors Ridgway, Li and Quiñones recently published Early Childhood Pedagogical Play. A cultural – historical interpretation using visual methodology (2015). Springer Science Series.

Chapter 1 A Wholeness Approach to Babies' and Toddlers' Learning and Development.- Chapter 2 Toddler's Relationships: A Matter of Sharing Worlds.- Chapter 3 The Babies' Perspective: Emotional Experience of their Creative Acts.- Chapter 4 Spatial Perspective on Everyday Transitions within a Toddler Group Care Setting.- Chapter 5 New Mothers Transitioning to Employment: Impact on Infant Feeding Practices.- Chapter 6 Well-being of Mothers and Young Children in Contexts of Special Health Care.- Chapter 7 Family Child/Day Care Homes as a Cultural Context or World for Babies and Toddlers.- Chapter 8 Intergenerational Conflicts and Transmission of Values in Raising 0-2 Year Old Chinese Babies.- Chapter 9 The 'Work of the Eye' in Infant Research: A Visual Encounter.- Chapter 10 Examining the Dynamics of Infant Reciprocity and Affective Fatherhood.- Chapter 11 Applying the Tavistock Method of Observation and Group Reflection to the Study of Babies and Toddlers in Centre-Based Childcare.- Chapter 12 Transitory Moments as 'Affective Moments of Action' in Toddler Play.- Chapter 13 Relations of Dynamic Aspects of Motives in Infant-Toddler's Play: Enhance Small Science learning experience.- Chapter 14 Emotional Security and Play Engagement of Young Children in Dutch Child Centres: A Story of Explorative Research, Experiments and Educators Testing Hypotheses.